St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-11-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr.. Day recently married Miss
Week in Minneapolis. He probably
went on the theory that n week was
worth more than day.-Caicago Jour-
nal.
-Vagrant--''Why are you here in
the dock?" Sharper-..For raising a
check. Why are You here?" Vagrant
because l couldnt raise one. y
Boston Budget.
The Inconvenience If having two
wives. beth living and looking for
blood. has caused Texas editor to
evaporate to South Amcrica.
/ Gazette.
If Jim jenkins don't stop shooting
our windows out there'll be trouble;
this is no rented house, and the win
dows cost money. II he wants TO shoot
at us he must come inside. -HGresriltc
(Ky.) Pla:ndea'er.
AT St. Augustine. Fla, few days
since A. NJ. Lopez, while at work tear
ing down Misson's building on st.
George street. found an old-fashioned
pistol imbeddesl in the walls. 1t is OF
queer design and undoubtedly Of great
age.
The house in which Isaiah Colby
and his wife were murdered at Cherry
Run, Pa, is nearly cut to pieces by
relic hunters, and one of them has the
shoes taken from Colby after the MUIR
der on exhibition in his store ut Lock
Haven.
Til" Pan yam mine near Helena.
M. T., is one Of the richest of recent
strikes in the Territory. 1t was dis
covered by John Waulshagan. Ia
borer. During the last two weeks in
August $4,000 worth of ore was taken
out Of the mine.
IN. II. Wilson. of MERGED, CAL. has
Just received some Egyptian wheat
5000 years old. which was found in the
coffin of an Egyptian prince. while un-
rolling the mummy. Prof Gil,len. If
Boston. brought the wheat to the United
States in 1850.
Omaha Dame (reading) :" THE
King has Just begun suit for divorce
against his wife" Chicago Dame
Il didn't hear the first part. What
King?" 1.-The King Of the Society
Islands," 20. l often wondered why
they were called Society Islands. -
Omaha World.
The thrce-year-old son Of Michael
Curron. Of Susquehanna, N. Y. was
seized with commissions and doctor
was called. Suspecting that the boy
had been overcating. the doctor gave
him an emetic and soon after the child
elected live lizard two and half
inches long. The boy is now all right.
For some time it was thought a
ghost had taken mp its abode in Frey's
mine. near Brownsville, Pa. and timor-
Gus miners gave its quarters wide
berth. Il was discovered that q bull
calf with = long chain on its neck had
wandered in there to get away from the
flies and was unable to find its way out.
Omaha Invalid-'1O. dear, SO the
doctor has sent me some more pills"
Husband-"Pills?" "Yes; didn't he
tell you what they were? I'm sure by
their looks they are blue mass pills. too.
But how big they are" Great Escu-
lapiu>! Are you talking about the con-
tents of that box! sent you that my
self. They are not pills. they are new
peaches. "-Omaha World
Sharks are accused Of causing the
great scarcity of soft crabs in the waters
hcreabout this summer. They are un-
usually numerous and bold, and may
be seen any day swimming about on
the flats. exploring the water-grass with
their blunt noses. They so into the
coves that are shedding-places Of crabs
and destroy all the soft ones they can
find.-BaltiMore sam.
The gathering of hundreds of B-mar-
tins in and around the public squares
every day at Martinsville. Henry
County. Va. has excited no little Curl
osity lately. An examination has dis
closed the fact that they were making
deliberate and apparently systematic
war upon the English sparrows. the
victory invariably remaining with the
martins. They have now. it is said.
literally whipped the sparrows out Of
the place.
The subject Of spiders is an cx-
tremely interesting one. and may be
followed with much profit in the way of
amusing information. One of the curl
Gus points is the difference in the sexes.
Van Hasselt has made the amusing
calculation that il the same difference
in size existed between man and woman
as we find in tho sexes Of spiders man
six feet high and weighing $50 pounds
could not lind partner less than sew.
enty-five feet in height or weighing less
than two hundred thousand pounds.
Mr.. Eric Bruce. who has worked
out the idea Of signaling at night by y
captive balloon lighted inside by cleo
trio incandescent lamps. has just COM
pleted one Tor the Belgian government
Mr.. Bruce's latest ballon is fifteen feet
in diameter and 1900 cubic feet in
capacity. It is made Of vanished
cambria, and is translucent Six Edi-
son and Swan lamps Of eight to ten
csndle-power are mounted inside. and
the current is supplied by an E. p. s.
accumulation of twenty-five cells Of the
eleven 5 type in teak-boxes.
When the Emperor Charles v. Of
Spain retired to the monastery Of ST.
Yuste he took with him TOrriano, his
clock-maker. in orsler to while away